Letters to the Editor
Mask mandates sparked by fear, not science
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: Re: Saturday, July 3, 2021, “Wearing a mask a choice to be respected” by the Lethbridge Herald Editorial Board In this editorial, you state: “Mandated masks have caused enormous conflict between those who believe in science and those who feel their freedoms were trounced upon by government.” It would be eminently useful to know ... Read More »
25 responsesNewspapers too important for us to lose
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: I am worried about the future of newspapers. Does the new always has to kill the old? When you disembark a plane or a train, you are always asked to make sure you don’t leave anything important behind. However, every time you move forward in your life, you rarely think of what you leave ... Read More »
1 responseSunridge water quality a sad state of affairs
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: The City of Lethbridge parks department recently advised citizens, in an item in this newspaper, to expect a lower level of parks maintenance due to a reduced number of staff. It is a worrisome development. In Sunridge, residents have sadly become used to a lower level of maintenance already and any further erosion is ... Read More »
2 responsesBy any method, it’s all genocide
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: Be it guns and swords to eliminate Armenians, or gas cambers to exterminate the Jews, or scimitars to eliminate Uzbekis in Iraq or brain washing prisons in China to “re-educate” Islamis, or residential schools to “assimilate” generations of aboriginal children in Canada, be it the body that is bludgeoned or the memory and mind ... Read More »
7 responsesRoger Prairie Chicken is the definition of a hero
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: The word “hero” today is bandied around as if it were popcorn at a movie theatre and frankly there’s few that catch my fancy. An exception popped up on page A2 of the June 24th edition of this paper in the text under the headline “Elder looking to lead movement for social political change ... Read More »
9 responsesPromises produce nothing
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: Answering the apologist for the oil and gas professional lobb, I suspect Mr. Brett Wilson spends more time in the marble halls of government sucking up subsidy dollars than he ever spent mucking around the mud in a drilling field. He certainly doesn\’t talk like any rig man I ever met. He says he ... Read More »
2 responsesFirst Nations had it right
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: It appears more and more likely Indigenous people had it absolutely 100 per cent right when they stated “white leaders speak with forked tongue.” I am so sad, heart-broken, embarrassed and ashamed over the treatment (no mistreatment) these Indigenous children and their families received in Canadian residential schools. This treatment (no mistreatment) disrespect, ignoring ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cuts to the parks department show bad judgment
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: I read with dismay about the City’s plans, based on the KPMG report, to cut services to our parks. My father was a municipal gardener in the UK. He was in charge of about 40 gardeners and labourers who cared for all the parks, flower beds set between the divided highway that went along ... Read More »
7 responsesEnough of the phone conservatives in our midst
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: My senior Conservative friends and I have had enough of these phony conservatives, Reformers, and the lies they have been spreading . As soon as they hired Janice MacKinnon, former Finance Minister of Saskatchewan’s NDP party, we knew our rural doctors were in trouble. She was credited with the closing of 52 rural hospitals ... Read More »
4 responsesElected officials and candidates should be prepared to be held to a higher standard
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: We may have some elections coming up in the remainder of 2021. Alberta has municipal elections in the fall and a federal election may be up coming for the country. While election fatigue is a real issue which may just compound our existing COVID-19 fatigue, some believe the federal election may be timed while ... Read More »
1 responseTime to listen
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: The government is finally letting up on restrictions and putting our province back to normal again. Certain members of city council have decided that they have more wisdom than the health authority! You have no right imposing your ideas about COVID over the health authority that has overseen this mess from the start. If ... Read More »
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